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Mail-DeliveryStatus-BounceParser (1.517)

Module proved unsuitable for use in a production environment, with multiple false positive and negative situations. For example: it proved incapable of filtering out vacation holds like "if you need help before August 1st then contact Mr Foo at foo@fish.com", where it would claim foo@fish.com as a bounced email address.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2007-03-17 09:39:52
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DBD-mysql (3.0002)

Lots of install trouble, e.g.:

$ENV{LANG} is not 'C' execing 'perl Makefile.PL' with ENV{LANG} == 'C'
You can skip this check by: 'export LANG='C' before running 'perl Makefile.PL or by upgrading your Perl'

Can't exec "mysql_config": No such file or directory at Makefile.PL line 76.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2006-02-24 00:16:08
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XML-Parser (2.34)

Poor installation results on Mac OS X:

t/encoding........"my" variable $p masks earlier declaration in same scope at t/encoding.t l ine 94.
t/encoding........ok
t/external_ent....ok 1/5
501 Protocol scheme 'file' is not supported file:/Users/brian/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.34/a. ent
Handler couldn't resolve external entity at line 7, column 5, byte 117
error in processing external entity reference at line 7, column 5, byte 117 at /Users/brian/ .cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.34/blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
t/external_ent....dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 2-5
Failed 4/5 tests, 20.00% okay
t/file............ok
t/finish..........ok
t/namespaces......ok
t/parament........ok 1/12
501 Protocol scheme 'file' is not supported file:/Users/brian/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.34/t/ foo.dtd

Bryce Nesbitt - 2005-12-26 23:59:22
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SOAP-Lite (0.60a)

Well, my needs are simple, so I did get a 1 line working project out of it. But I recently switched to SUSE Linux 10.0, and so had to reinstall, and that's just not happening. From a cpan point of view this is the heaviest 'lite' module I've ever seen. Zillions of dependencies.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2005-11-08 00:10:35
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Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (0.2603)

Perfect. Thanks so much.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2005-03-11 12:29:03
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Geo-Shapelib (0.13)

Documentation too confusing to attract me. Does not even define the available shapefile types (e.g. POINT, POLYGON). I can't figure out how to make a line theme.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2005-02-24 13:04:40
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Geo-Coder-US (0.21)

Wow. I used to pay 15 cents per lookup to a really nasty company. This is a great public service, using public data. Thanks!

Bryce Nesbitt - 2005-02-17 02:19:03
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Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-Simple (1.01)

Perhaps too simple.

Documentation is not complete enough to complete real tasks. For example it is not obvious how to get the sheet name ("$sheet->{sheet}->{Name}").

Bryce Nesbitt - 2004-08-30 23:05:25
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Spreadsheet-WriteExcel (2.11)

What more to ask? It takes seconds to learn the interface, another few seconds to write a test program. And if you've already got tabular fields such as SQL data, just a few more seconds to integrate into your application. A+. I use it with Spreadsheet::ParseExcel on a database project where the goal is to use Excel as the user-interface GUI.

Bryce Nesbitt - 2004-08-28 00:38:15
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